Hi,

Geoff Walton and I are writing a book for Chandos on 
teaching information and e-literacy and we are looking for 
examples of good practice. The book will provide a guide 
to teaching, drawing on the literature from education and 
current ideas about how people learn and effective 
teaching methods, e-learning, as well as research into 
information seeking and information literacy teaching and 
learning. We will also draw on our own experiences of 
teaching information literacy and information retrieval.
   
Specific guides to teaching interventions, including 
lesson plans, will be given. Explanations of why specific 
interventions worked from a pedagogical viewpoint will be 
included.
   
We would like to illustrate the text with examples of 
methods that other people have used. We would therefore 
welcome examples of techniques that have worked. For 
example a year ago at the COLRIC conference delegates came 
up with innovative strategies to engage students with 
different aspects of information literacy. One memorable 
example was an agricultural college who used an outdoor 
activity to get students to think about and identify key 
terms used to describe plants that would later help them 
locate relevant information sources.
   
Ideally we would like examples from different environments 
including educational (primary, secondary, tertiary, and 
in different disciplines); the workplace (health, 
business, legal etc.), the public via public libraries, 
youth work, work with the elderly, minority groups etc. 
both in the UK and overseas. We would also like them to be 
as specific as possible, for example, techniques that 
helped people start to conceptually map a domain or to 
become aware of their information landscape or techniques 
that injected fun and helped encourage motivation. In 
other words they can be very short.
   
 From an intellectual property point of view providing us 
with examples would not stop an individual writing about 
their experiences elsewhere. In fact they may provide you 
with the bare bones of an article you would like to 
publish. All contributors will be acknowledged in the 
book.
   
Geoff and I will also be at the LILAC conference in 
Liverpool next week and would be very happy to meet with 
people who would like to talk about their experience of 
teaching information literacy.
   
We look forward to hearing from you.
   
Best wishes,
   
Mark & Geoff